Am I fucking retarded for still using Adobe Illustrator? All I do is make shitty anime vectors and the workflow drives me fucking nuts each time. Is this shit just absolute ass for productivity or am I just retarded?Everytime I try to look up tutorials for this shit it just gives me ass unrelated "how to trace your linart" horseshit. Also why the FUCK doesnt illustrator have drop shadow still in 2026. Fuck I'm mad.
>>464212uh, whats you work flow?and uh image trace and uh krita? the fuck are you doing?
It has drop shadow though.
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>>464212Illustrator is a nightmare, and the best, for control on everything but texture, or realistic shading. Don't fucking touch gradient mesh.Sketch in photoshop or with a brush in illistratorDrop opacity make a new layer do your your line work. Have the entire pen tool, tool bar out and floating.use the pencil tool to draw the shapesuse the eraser to refine themexpand appearance of those shapes then combine them in the pathfinder menu, simplify the path, the use the direct select to to erase and adjust the curves of your paths. use pen to to make exact curves, then epand apperance and merge into the shapes, repeat repeat repeat.when you get your outlines done, merge again, then put a block of color behind it, select both find the pathfinder button that divides, try and move the color block, if there are no gaps, you'll have cut outs for all your color fields, and can adjust colors now, If there are gaps, you have to use the knife tool, and draw over the gaps to separate the shapes. then you can use shapes or knife to cut those color blocks to add two or three tone shading, or just export it once you have your flats and shade it in photoshop.
